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Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants · Question 95

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1

Apomictic embryos in Citrus arise from

  1. synergids
  2. maternal sporophytic tissue in ovule
  3. antipodal cells
  4. diploid egg

Answer

(2) maternal sporophytic tissue in ovule

Solution

As per NCERT, in many Citrus and mango varieties some of the nucellar cells surrounding the embryo sac start dividing, protrude into the embryo sac and develop into embryos.

⇒ The nucellus is the maternal sporophytic (diploid) tissue of the ovule.

∴ Apomictic (nucellar) embryos in Citrus arise from the maternal sporophytic tissue in the ovule.

Answer: (2)

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2

Transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the stigma of another flower of the same plant is called

  1. xenogamy
  2. geitonogamy
  3. karyogamy
  4. autogamy
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3

Wind pollinated flowers are

  1. small, brightly coloured, producing large number of pollen grains
  2. small, producing large number of dry pollen grains
  3. large producing abundant nectar and pollen
  4. small, producing nectar and dry pollen
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4

Which one of the following pairs of plant structures has haploid number of chromosomes?

  1. Nucellus and antipodal cells
  2. Egg nucleus and secondary nucleus
  3. Megaspore mother cell and antipodal cells
  4. Egg cell and antipodal cells
AIPMT 2008
5

What does the filiform apparatus do at the entrance into ovule?

  1. It brings about opening of the pollen tube.
  2. It guides pollen tube from a synergid to egg.
  3. It helps in the entry of pollen tube into a synergid.
  4. It prevents entry of more than one pollen tube into the embryo sac.
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6

Unisexuality of flowers prevents

  1. geitonogamy, but not xenogamy
  2. autogamy and geitonogamy
  3. autogamy, but not geitonogamy
  4. both geitonogamy and xenogamy
AIPMT 2008
7

Which one of the following is resistant to enzyme action?

  1. Pollen exine
  2. Leaf cuticle
  3. Cork
  4. Wood fibre
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8

Male gametes in angiosperms are formed by the division of

  1. generative cell
  2. vegetative cell
  3. microspore mother cell
  4. microspore
AIPMT 2007
9

Which one of the following is surrounded by a callose wall?

  1. Male gamete
  2. Egg
  3. Pollen grain
  4. Microspore mother cell
AIPMT 2007
10

Long filamentous threads protruding at the end of a young cob of maize are

  1. hairs
  2. anthers
  3. styles
  4. ovaries
AIPMT 2006
11

In a cereal grain the single cotyledon of embryo is represented by

  1. coleoptile
  2. coleorhiza
  3. scutellum
  4. prophyll.
AIPMT 2006

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